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Personal Example Teaching

Many children do not like to be left alone at bedtime. One such little girl wanted her mother to stay with her. "You've got your doll," said her mother. "Your doll will keep you company." "When I'm lonely," the child sobbed, "a doll is no good to me. I want someone with skin on her face." Objects are sometimes not as good as real people. Jesus also knew this. On one occasion in the middle of an argument between his disciples, He floored them all by bringing a little child into their midst and pointing out, "The greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child."¹

I am not suggesting that the Sunday School teacher bring the best behaved girl out to the front of the class and tell the rest to conduct themselves like her. We can however hold up the lives of ordinary men and women as personal example teaching to illustrate some excellence in them that stems from their relationship to God. You might like to relate the adventures of David Livingstone, or Francis of Assisi. In our own time, Mother Teresa, Corrie Ten Boon or Joni are telling as personal example teaching in different kinds of ways how God is working today. These biographies often contain miraculous events, and in the earthly life of Jesus we find the same personal example teaching as he performs miracles in order to explain some truth about God.

¹ Matthew 18:2-5

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